It may seem like a small thing, but with its customised RTX 50s, MSI will be supplying customised adapters. In fact, these differ from the one used by NVIDIA in one respect: the power pins are yellow. This may seem strange at first glance, but this choice isn’t just for show. Its purpose is to ensure that users connect their power cable correctly!
MSI’s 12V-2×6 adapter goes yellow!
Even though NVIDIA’s next-generation cards will all be using the famous 16-pin connector, don’t throw away your power supply just yet. No, custom graphics cards will be supplied with PCIe adapters, as with the RTX 40. Again, depending on the card, you may have more or fewer sockets to plug into, from three to four. Of course, we expect the quad slot to be for the RTX 5090, while the triple PCIe slot would be for the RTX 5080 and RTX 5070 Ti.
When you see these photos, you won’t have missed the yellow colour of the 12V-2×6 (to find out how it differs from the 12VHPWR, click here), which is far from being there just for show. Its purpose is to help users insert their connector correctly to avoid the problems encountered by brands with RTX 40s. To put it crudely, when the latter first appeared on the market, there were numerous reports of burnt-out cards. The common thread was the connector, which was often poorly inserted, it seems. So, to ensure that the connector is handled correctly by the user, the brand dyes the pins yellow. As long as you can see the colour, the cable isn’t pushed in far enough!
The brand was already using this trick with some of its power supplies. Clearly, this solution seems to be paying off, as MSI is even extending it to the adapters that come as standard with its boards.
Bonus: VideoCardz has also managed to get its hands on a snapshot of the RTX 5070 adapter. This will only need to be connected to two 8-pin PCIe sockets, but will not have any special treatment. This is the original NVIDIA connector.
